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‘The gap below Cartier and Tiffany’: Michael Hill’s luxury play

ASX-listed jeweller Michael Hill has been undergoing a major rebranding exercise.

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  • Patrick Durkin

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An Australian National University study has found that the gender of board appointees does not impact firm financial performance.

Gender of directors added no financial value: study

A study by the Australian National University has found that the gender of directors appointed to company boards had no impact on the financial performance of those businesses.

  • Patrick Durkin
Xavier Huillard, CEO of Vinci: “I am not a businessman. I am a philosopher. I am a chemist of human beings.”

Business school blather can’t beat real-world CEO know-how

What’s needed is a new management theory that avoids the deceptive certainties of neoliberalism and the equally deceptive vagaries of stakeholder capitalism.

  • Adrian Wooldridge
Ruslan Kogan still works at his Melbourne office in a T-shirt and jeans.

Why Kogan stops interviews with marathon runners to hire them

BOSS sat down with Kogan.com founder Ruslan Kogan just as his share price collapsed by 30 per cent.

  • Patrick Durkin
Pauline Hanson leaves court with her barrister, Sue Chrysanthou, SC, in Sydney on Monday.

Judge retires to consider if Pauline Hanson is a racist

After a bitterly fought trial, a judge has retired to consider whether Pauline Hanson made a racial slur when telling a Muslim senator to go back to Pakistan.

  • Miklos Bolza
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Pauline Hanson and Sue Chrysanthou, SC, outside the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday.

A judge may decide if Pauline Hanson is a white supremacist

The far-right senator’s career of racial commentary is on trial in the Federal Court.

  • Aaron Patrick

This CEO didn’t go to uni and never had a career plan

Australia Post chief Paul Graham left school and tried out myriad manual jobs. Now he is responsible for 63,000 employees.

  • Sally Patten and Lap Phan
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The unlikely CEO team tackling Australia’s toughest job

Bran Black and Luke Achterstraat represent business at the opposite ends of the spectrum but are determined to present a united front in Canberra.

  • Patrick Durkin

What happens when Rio Tinto’s Australian CEO gets cranky

Kellie Parker, Rio Tinto’s Australian boss, discusses what happens when she gets tired, why she likes puzzles and why she continually tracks her emotions.

  • Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
Professor Raymond Dolan is a leading neuroscientist  and a professor of neuropsychiatry at University College London.

Why this leading brain expert doesn’t do the same thing every day

Neuroscientist Raymond Dolan says people who continue to have an exploratory goal-directed life appear to be less susceptible to disorders like dementia.

  • Jill Margo
Expert360 CEO Bridget Loudon is the youngest director in the ASX 50.

The advice that’s helped Loudon navigate the boardroom

Bridget Loudon says some wise words from her mum have stuck with her as she’s navigated life as the director of a blue-chip giant.

  • James Thomson
laire Rogers,  former World Vision Australia’s CEO during a Breakfast with Boss in Melbourne.

Why this CEO keeps Fridays for thinking

Claire Rogers has co-founded a technology start-up that draws on her experience as a former ANZ executive and World Vision CEO.

  • Patrick Durkin
TechnologyOne CEO Ed Chung says there has been a noticeable shift in the tech market in the past three to six months.

Why this top 100 CEO gets his executives to swap jobs

The architect of a corporate experiment where the execs change jobs admits it is a little on the crazy side for a $5.2 billion, top 100 ASX tech company.

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  • Patrick Durkin

Star chef Matt Moran reveals his dinner party secrets – and pet hates

At age 15, Matt Moran dropped out of school and learnt to cook. Along the way, he has learned how to run a business, manage people and stay sane.

  • Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
Sam Mostyn, pictured in 2009, when she was an executive at insurer IAG.

Male mentors drove Mostyn’s career, but she influenced them too

The next governor-general is best known as an advocate for professional women. She also had influential male mentors.

  • Aaron Patrick
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Patricia McKenzie initially wanted to study science because she did not want to follow her older brother into law.

Why AGL chairman Patricia McKenzie couldn’t get a job in a law firm

She almost didn’t take up legal studies in the first place, but didn’t expect to find job hunting so difficult.

  • Sally Patten
Dale Connor eats breakfast at The Grounds of the City in Sydney’s CBD.

Why this CEO packs five days’ worth of work into four days

Lendlease Australia chief executive Dale Connor lives in Brisbane but spends his workweek in the property company’s Sydney office.

  • Sally Patten
Professor Julie Leask, one of Australia’s leading experts on vaccine uptake.

Women of Influence share their tips for young female leaders today

Past winners of The Australian Financial Review’s long-standing and much-loved program give advice before it returns this year as Women in Leadership.

Tony Lombardo.

Why Lendlease CEO Tony Lombardo landed on the career fast track

The double jolt of his mother being diagnosed with cancer and his father dying at an early age put Lendlease CEO Tony Lombardo on the career fast track to everything.

  • Sally Patten and Lap Phan
Sam Mostyn is Australia’s next governor-general.

What to expect from the new governor-general, from those who know her

Praised for her integrity, empathy and roaring intellect, all those who have worked alongside Sam Mostyn, or seen her in action, expect great things when she starts her new role.

  • Sally Patten, Hannah Wootton and Samantha Hutchinson